LA Art Book Fair 2017

This February 24 through 26, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair returns to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for its fifth edition. The fair features over 300 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers; a full list of exhibitors is available on the LA Art Book Fair website, as is a schedule of events organized in conjunction with the fair.

At this year’s LA Art Book Fair, SFAQ [Projects] presents a site-specific installation of a reading room by Ohio based artist, Zachary Armstrong, highlighting his recent artist book Big Bag Of Candles, which is a five year survey of his work and studio practice, made as an edition of 100. The installation will also include thirty framed works on paper, functional lamp sculptures, hand carved book ends, and other catalogues by the artist. In contrast with the strenuous setting of a fair, Armstrong aims to bring a sense of domesticity and comfort, allowing viewers to engage with his books in the same comfort that they would at home. On Saturday, February 25, Armstrong will open a solo exhibition, Keith Paintings, at China Art Objects Galleries.

In addition to Armstrong’s project, we will also present new unique objects and hand altered artist publications from San Francisco based Barry McGee, as well as new publication releases by SFAQ [Projects] from Tom Sachs and Kour Pour. Also available: publications and zines from Petra Collins, Swampy, Satan Ceramics, Sandy Kim, Tyler Macko, current issues of LXAQ and NYAQ, and more . . .

Kour Pour’s new zine Re-Inventing Abstraction: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, published on the occasion of Earthquakes And The Mid Winter Burning Sun, an exhibition pairing Kour Pour with Kazuo Shiraga at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, January 10 – March 18, 2017. Available online and at the SFAQ [Projects] booth at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair.

A spread from Kour Pour’s new zine Re-Inventing Abstraction: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, published on the occasion of Earthquakes And The Mid Winter Burning Sun, an exhibition pairing Kour Pour with Kazuo Shiraga at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, January 10 – March 18, 2017. Available online and at the SFAQ [Projects] booth at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair.

Barry McGee poster for SFAQ [Projects]. Originally released in Issue 15 of SFAQ (November 2015), a limited number are now available. Available online and at the SFAQ [Projects] booth at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair.

A spread from Swampy’s Your House Is My House, co-published by SFAQ [Projects] and The Flop Box. Available online and at the SFAQ [Projects] booth at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair.

Tom Sachs’s Space Program: Europa Pre-Flight Risk Assessment Checklist, the unofficial catalogue of Tom Sachs’s Space Program: Europa exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, September 16 – January 15, 2016-17. Available online and at the SFAQ [Projects] booth at the 2017 LA Art Book Fair.